---
id: cloud-vs-self-hosted-features
title: Temporal's production deployment features
description: Transform your Temporal apps into production-ready systems by deploying Workflows, Activities, and Workers with either our managed Temporal Cloud or self-hosted service solutions.
sidebar_label: Production features
tags:
  - Temporal Service
  - Temporal Cloud
keywords:
  - temporal service deployment
  - self-host temporal service
  - temporal cloud benefits
  - production traffic management
  - high availability workflows
  - multi-tenant temporal service
  - workflow state retention
  - temporal community support
  - temporal cloud vs self-hosted
  - workflow history export
---

Transform your Temporal applications into production-ready systems by deploying your application code, Workflows, Activities, and Workers for operational use.
When your application is ready to start serving production traffic, we offer two Temporal Service options:

- **[Choose Temporal Cloud for your Temporal Service](/cloud)**
  Let us handle the Temporal Service operations so you can focus on your applications.
- **[Self-host a Temporal Service](/self-hosted-guide)**
  Deploy your own production level Temporal Service to orchestrate your durable applications.

| Feature                            | Temporal Cloud                                                                            | Self-hosted                                                                                                     |
| ---------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Multi-tenant**                   | ✅ Up to 100 Namespaces                                                                   | ✅ Unlimited Namespaces                                                                                         |
| **High availability and failover** | ✅ [Multi-region Namespaces](/evaluate/development-production-features/high-availability) | ✅ [Global Namespaces & Multi-Cluster Replication](/evaluate/development-production-features/high-availability) |
| **Application state persistence**  | ✅ 30-90 day Retention                                                                    | ✅ Unlimited                                                                                                    |
| **Long term state retention**      | ✅ Workflow History Export                                                                | ✅ Archival                                                                                                     |
| **Community support**              | ✅ Slack, Forum                                                                           | ✅ Slack, Forum                                                                                                 |
| **Paid support**                   | ✅ Prioritized responses                                                                  | ✖️                                                                                                               |
